State extends unemployment benefits for dependents through end of 2013

4:23 PM,
Jul. 12, 2013

Written by

Walter F. Roche Jr.
The Tennessean

Faced with the possible cutoff of millions of dollars in federally funded benefits for 22,000 unemployed residents, Tennessee state labor officials have put off a planned cut in benefits for the unemployed with dependent children until next year.

The cutoff of funding for dependents had been scheduled to go into effect July 1, but was delayed temporarily when state officials said they first learned that it would trigger aid to the 22,000 getting supplemental federally funded benefits.

In a statement issued Friday, Labor and Workforce Development Commissioner Burns Phillips called the ...